God Arises
Religion and Society
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any minuscule alteration in the rotation of the earth,
leading to the shortening or lengthening of the day
by even a millionth of a second, our observatories
will at once detect it. The sensitivity of modern
apparatus is such that, if just two words are added
to a thirty-volume encyclopaedia, the increase in
weight of the added ink will be exactly recorded.
How great and how wonderful are the advances of
man in the discovery of physical laws. But as far as
social laws are concerned, he has not advanced so
much as one inch.
It is not that man has not strained every fibre of his
being to do so; he has, in fact, made as many
herculean attempts to discover viable social laws as
he has to discover the secrets of the universe. The
truth is that, hard as he may try to find a just basis
for the laws governing his society, this will always
elude him, for it is some thing which it is beyond
him to find. The limitations of the human mind
prevent it from grappling successfully with the
infinitude of facts which it would be necessary to
apprehend and systematise if truly just and
equitable laws were to be enacted. We are forced to
come back to the tenet that there must be a Mind
